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Marble Beauty
Marble Beauty
JaviZ


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Beauty In The Everyday (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 28-135mm F/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Location: Fountain @ Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Date: Dec 12, 2007
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Urban, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Dec 12, 2007

 My first entry... Finally, since I have registered on Jan. 7th 2007! :(

Everyday, I can admire the beauty of the fountain located at the front doors of my University (where I work), in Bahia Blanca, Argentina. It is a fantastic sculpture work made by Lola Mora. Today, early in the morning, I took this picture of a small portion of this great fountain trying to capture part of this Marble Beauty, the perfections of this overlooked woman, made of imperfect marble.

If you want to see some more detail of this font and its environment, you can watch these two videos (frozen Lola Mora): 1 and 2.

Almost 100% original shot, basic PP in PS CS3:
- Added a bit of contrast (+4).
- Resized for DPC.

Statistics
Place: 176 out of 207
Avg (all users): 4.7868
Avg (commenters): 5.2857
Avg (participants): 4.5676
Avg (non-participants): 4.9187
Views since voting: 776
Views during voting: 310
Votes: 197
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 12/26/2007 01:46:31 AM
After the challenge:

Average: 4.7868... Pretty bad! I was expected a 6+ or so.... Perhaps I'm too optimistic! :)

A lot here posted about the orientation of this shot. I submitted it this way instead of a 90 degrees CCW because this is the way you see it. You can see the water flowing upwards this way. You can even notice the main part of the fountain behind her. Perhaps this view is so common to me... but a bit weird to most of you.

I talked about this in the picture in Photographer's Comments but I did not know voters were unable to see it (this is my 1st submit). Next time i will use a more descriptive title! :)
 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/24/2007 12:19:05 PM
I'm not sure if this is on the side or if the figure is actually this way. The strong backlighting takes away some detail.
 12/24/2007 06:55:10 AM
Is the orientation intentional?
 12/23/2007 04:43:31 PM
This is an everyday item?
 12/22/2007 04:16:04 AM
it is ok, not sure about the angle of the camera
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/21/2007 04:18:19 AM
seems mabe 90 degrees to the left would have helped this (for me anyways) 5
 12/21/2007 02:39:37 AM
I think this would have been better portrait, rather than landscape
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/19/2007 11:17:38 AM
sideways???
 12/19/2007 08:33:05 AM
I wish it had been turned correctly... quite lovely
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/19/2007 08:15:26 AM
Excellent pic... beautiful woman with some imperfections in his arm (moss)
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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